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World Book Day: What character have you dressed as?

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It's the hungry hungry caterpillar! Six-year-old Polly from Leicester's outfit also shows off all the food the caterpillar's eaten.

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Check out nine-year-old Reagan from Bolton's Gangsta Granny. She really looks the part!

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It's double trouble! We've got another Gangsta Granny.

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Six-year-old Leo from Rochester dressed up as Mr Gum. He says he loves the book series because it's so funny!

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Ten-year-old Gwilym based his costume on 'The Machine Gunners' by Robert Westall. He made his plane from cardboard boxes, and borrowed the hat and scarf from someone who actually flew a Lancaster Bomber plane in the war.

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Ethan, 11, from Belfast has dressed as his favourite David Walliams character ‘Burt from Ratburger'. What a cool dude!

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Kristian's rivalling Johnny Depp for the best Jack Sparrow, in his 'Pirates of the Caribbean' inspired outfit.

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Evelyn is celebrating World Book Day at nursery, dressed as Emmeline Pankhurst from 'Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World'.

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Emmeline Pankhurst is also behind this outfit from six-year-old Georgie from Whiteabbey, Northern Ireland. She was given the book by her auntie.

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Six-year-old Evie has been very creative with her costume - the yellow crayon from 'The day the Crayons Quit'

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Isabella, 9, loves Frida Kahlo and chose to dress up as the artist who features in the book, ‘Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls’.

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These guys love World Book Day! Four-year-old Dolly has dressed as Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'. Nine-year-old Sonny has taken inspiration from Roald Dahl, as Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

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And he's not the only one...Eight-year-old Cheyenne in London is the giraffe from the Roald Dahl book 'The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me'. Five-year-old Kaizeth is The Cat in the Hat.

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Eleven-year-old Ornetta from London is also following the Roald Dahl theme. She's dressed as Matilda, but will she have Matilda's magical powers too?

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Five-year-old Lexie in Birmingham is also getting into character as Matilda. She even has her own newt in a jar, ready to scare Miss Trunchbull with!

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Daniel from Surrey has dressed as one of Roald Dahl's most famous characters - The BFG.

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Six-year-old Eleanor dressed as a the witch from 'Room on the Broom'.

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'Mad Hatter' Emily, 10, looks like she could throw a pretty good tea party in this costume.

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She'd probably invite Alice in Wonderland, also known as, Madison from Belfast. She certainly looks like she fallen through the looking glass...or rather through the middle of this cardboard house.

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Eight-year-old Ashleigh-Jai went to school dressed as a 'Lol Doll' character Bon Bon.

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Anaïs and Louis from Cornwall dressed up Jessie and Woody From 'Toy Story'. Yee-ha!

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You're never too young or too old to dress up for World Book Day. Lars is just two-years-old, and has dressed as Thomas the Tank Engine. He plans to spend World Book Day chuffing about in the snow building snow trains.

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Freja and Harriette's school is closed...but that hasn't stopped them celebrating World Book Day! They've dressed up at home - Freja is Evie from 'The Isle of the Lost books', and Harriette is Rapunzel from 'The Fairytale Hairdresser'.

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Lilly, 10, in Devon also dressed as The Cat in the Hat, even though her school's closed.

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School's also shut for nine-year-old Alice. She dressed as a unicorn, from “I believe in Unicorns” by Michael Morpurgo, because it's her fave character from the book.

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Check out Delilah! The snow never bothered her anyway. In fact it's the perfect weather for her to show off her Snow Queen costume.

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Here's Ayaan from London dressed as Chase from 'PAW Patrol'.

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William loves the story and animals in 'Giraffes can’t dance' so much, he decided to dress up as one of them.

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Sofia, from Reading wanted to dress up as Pippi Longstocking, a mischievous fearless 9 year old girl, which Sofia says is just like her!

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Henry from Amersham flashes the cash, as Frank from 'Bad Dad'.

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Anna and Amy in Warrington dressed as Lucy Pevensie from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,' and Arthur Dent from 'Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy'.

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Doesn't he look MARVEL-ous! Albert in Bournemouth is ready for anything as Captain America.

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Ten-year-old Meika from London is on the case as Tintin.

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Six-year-old Wilfred in Surrey looks likes he's come straight from Camp Half Blood in this Percy Jackson costume.

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Bronte and Molly's mum is a teacher, so the snow meant they all had the day off! So they imagined they were in Hogwarts and dressed as Hermione, Ginny and Professor McGonagal.

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But can they cast a spell better than Jessica from Knutsford? She dressed as Mildred Hubble from the Worst Witch.